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PREFACE. 





_ The followmg pages in English contain the 
substance of a paper prepared for the Georgia 
Historical Society, at the suggestion of a fellow-. 
member. The trip to the North was too short 
to furnish much of interest for a narrative ; 
and it therefore occurred to me that a Latin 
translation might serve the double purpose of 
whiling away a little leisure time in the hot 
season, and of amusing some friends for whom the 
undertaking was principally intended. That the 
Latin translation is faulty, I am well aware; 
and it is not unlikely that the task of trying 
to lick it into shape has put me under the ban 
of Horace’s censure: 


In vitium ducit culpe fuga, si caret arte. 
Besides the intrinsic difficulties of Latin com- 


position, there are others peculiar to the present 
time. Such are the attempts to use terms of 


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6 PREFACE. 


art, and proper names, unknown to the ancient 


Romans. For example: it seems that navis- 


vaporaria means a steam-ship; and yet there is 
no such Latin word ‘as vaporarius. So of a 
railroad: Via-ferrea expresses the idea, and has 
actually been adopted as the Latin name. 
What word Cicero would have used, we can 
only conjecture. There is no Latin agreeing 


-entirely with the English word park. Parcus 


is of modern origin, and means a pound, rather 
than a park—always, perhaps, a place of con- 
finement for animals. Cemeterium, for cemetery, 
being of Greek origin, is hardly a fair. substi- 
tute for sepulchrum or sepulchretum; but I have 
used the first and the last, indifferently. The 
English word canal is very different from the 
Latin canalis; but fossa-navigabilis, the true 
term for the English words navigable canal, 
would sound awkwardly, if repeatedly applied 
even to the largest canal—the Erie canal, for 


instance. Similar observations are applicable 


to the Greek-English word museum, and the 
French-English word depot. Cataracta, says 
learned authority, 7s used in Latin only of the 


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PREFACE. 7 


waterfalls of the Nile. Whether centurio, or 
ordinum duc, be the true Latin for captain of 
foot in the English and American service, critics 
must determine. These remarks need not be 
extended. Terms of art, and other words, not 
in use by the ancient Romans, I have gener- 
ally put in dalics. In the computation of time, 
I have not followed the Roman division of the 
months into Kalends, Nones, and Ides. 

In the department of proper names, much dif- 
ficulty has been encountered. How the ancient 
word Zephyrium is the Latin for West-Point, is 
not easily perceived. On this pomt—I mean 
West Point—see the English-Latin lexicon of 
Rev. Joseph Esmond Riddle and Rev. Thomas 
Kerchever Arnold, (founded on the German- 
Latin of Dr. Charles Ernest Georges,) and edited 
by Dr. Charles Anthon—edition of 1849. Har- 
lemum, as well as Harlema, seems to be the Latin 
for Harlem. Harvard and Nassau-Hall would 
rise in arms against the use of any other Roman 
words than Respublice Federate, for the United 
States; although those words do mean Confed- 
erate, rather than United, States. In the only 


8 PREFACE. 


reference I have made to the ‘ Confederate 
States,” civitates, and not respublice, has been 


used. To go no further: I have made no 


attempt to translate such words as Mclnrosg, 
SPRAGUE, and ADAms. - 


It would be an error to suppose that the - 


Latin of the succeeding pages was turned into 
English, (as a friend, to whom I broke the en- 
terprise, facetiously surmised,) for the benefit 
of ‘‘country members” of the Georgia His- 
torical Society. The Society has nothing to 
do with the Latin; nor has any body else 
who is disposed to criticise motive or act. 

To friends at the North, from whom my 
children and myself received so much kind- 
ness, many, many thanks are due. The repe- 
tition of these thanks, even in a dead lan- 
guage, will not, I trust, be unacceptable, al- 
though clothed in only a tolerable dress. 

Finally: I hereby return thanks to the 
literary friends in Savannah who have gen- 
erously aided me in the lime labor. 

Epwarp J. Harpen. 


Savannan, November, 1868. 


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sHORDe NORTHERN «TOUR. 


On the 20th day of June, in the year of 
our Lord 1868, at five o’clock in the after- 
noon, accompanied by my oldest daughter and 
my little son, I embarked on board the steam- 
ship called the San Salvador, captain Nicker- 
son, about to-leave for New-York. With a 
favoring breeze and pleasant weather, we 
passed Tybee light-house about dusk. The 
sea was almost entirely quiet, with roughness 
just sufficient to excite to nausea, and to com- 
pel certain of the passengers, myself included, 
to pay the accustomed tribute to Neptune. 
We had pleasant company on board, with a 
supply of all things necessary for the voyage. 
After a propitious night, we awoke to realize, 
as it were, the force of Virgil’s expression : 

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* * * * pee jam amplius ulla 


Oceurrit tellus; ccelum undique, et undique pontus ; 


(which, freely turned into English, means: 
“nothing but sky and water.”) Morning dis- 
closed to me another thing, to wit: that my 
daughter and others of the passengers were 
suffering with severe sea-sickness ; and in that 
condition some continued to the end of the 
voyage. The residue of the trip was remark- 
able for nothing, except the smoothness, of the 
sea, the sight of three or four whales, and the 
catching of one stormy petrel. To those who 
travel by sea, it may afford comfort to know 
that the above-named little bird, which is very 
rarely seen on land, and is commonly ealled 
Mother Carey's Chichen, becomes sea-sick as 
soon as it is taken aboard the vessel. So, at 
least, sailors assert; and in this matter there 
seems to be confirmation; since, this bird, as 
soon as it is taken into the vessel, always 
begins to vomit. Of this we saw two other 
exaniples on our return. 

We had a fellow-voyager, surnamed JJorti- 
mer, who, in former years, had commanded in 





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the merchant service. He entertained his 
friends with pleasant stories and _ sportive 
tricks — grateful, especially, to the younger 
travelers. On account of the etymology of 
his name, he was jecosely called, by some of 
us, Dead-Sea-Man. 

In the afternoon of the twenty-third day of 
June, we reached the bay of New-York ; and, 
the weather being clear, a most beautiful pros- 
pect was opened to us in our approach to the 
city. Coming to pier number eight, North 
river, it appeared that there was at least one 
person in the metropolis who knew me. He 
had been a captain in the army of the Con- 
federate States, and had received an honor- 
able wound at the assault on Fort Pulaski. 
After no small trouble in. making a bargain 
for the transportation of our baggage from the 
ship, we are driven to the St. James Hotel, 
situate at the corner of Broadway and Twen- 
ty-sixth street. Here we have pleasant quar- 
ters assigned us; and here, after supper, we 
retire to bed—as to two of our company, for 
the first time in that city. That we had lit- 


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tle rest, I deem it unnecessary to say. To 
any one judging only by the sound of the 
little bells of the street-ears, the noise of other 
vehicles, and the tread of pedestrians, it might 
be permitted to believe that sleep has no place 
in New-York. By the way, it is worthy of 
note that the street rail-ways are amongst the 
wonderful things in the city. How, without 
them, the glut of the thronged thoroughfares 
could be relieved, is not easily comprehended. 

Through the kindness of a friend to whom 
we carried letters, we were driven, in a coach- 
and-two, first through Central Park; and as 
far as High-Bridge, over which flows the wa- 
ter of Croton river from which the city re- 
ceives its supply: on another day, through 
Greenwood Cemetery. The want of forest 


trees in the Park was the only thing that dis- - 


appointed us: in other respects, the place is 
greatly to be admired. In the Cemetery, no- 
thing struck me as so appropriate as the colos- 
sal statue, near the entrance, erected to the 
memory of De Witt Clinton; whose more en- 
during monument, however, is the Hrie canal,, 


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at first ealled, in derision, Clinton’s ditch, and 
of which we shall hereafter say more. Of the 
pleasant location and the adornments of the 
Cemetery, it is difficult to say too much. 

_ After three days in part spent in deliver- 
ing letters and receiving and visiting friends, 
we prepared for ascending the Hudson river 
in the day-time. Among the friends whom 
we delighted to see, before leaving the city, 
were the learned authoress, Maria J. McIn- 
tosh, and her sister. The former is widely 
known as a writer; and her literary works 
do honor to the whole country, and especially 
to her native South. 

On the twenty-seventh day of June, we em- 
barked on board the steamer C. Vibbard, on 
our way to Saratoga and Niagara, by way of 
Albany the seat of government of the ‘“ Em- 
pire State” of the North. To those who have 
ascended the Hudson, it is not meet that we 
attempt a description of the agreeable and 
grand prospects on either bank of the river; to 
all others, such an attempt would be of little 
use. With a clear sky and pleasant weather, 


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we had the finest opportunity for seeing 
every thing which the rapidity of our course 
would permit to be brought to view. Canal- 
boats and other vessels, laden with produce 
and merchandise, were wending their lazy way 
towards New-York city. Ever and anon, we 
are astounded by tbe sight of a long train of 
cars, driven, with the swiftness of a bird, over. 
the track of the Hudson River rail-road ; now, 
on the very brink of the river, and under 
over-hanging mountains ; then, either entering 
or emerging from a tunnel cut. through the 
high land. In prosecuting our voyage at a 
bend of the river, near West-Point, the turn 
is so sudden that the river seems to come to 
an end. So deceptive is the appearance, that 
my son inquired whether it were not true; but, 
suddenly, the vessel being turned to the left, 
the river is again seen to flow in its narrow- 
ed channel. During the trip, we met one of 
the genus homo, a Bostonian; who, loquacious 
even to garrulity when not questioned, would 
never respond to a direct and pertinent in- 
quiry’; invariably avoiding an answer, as fol- 


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lows: ‘‘ How should I know?’—‘‘really, I do 
not know.” 

About nine or ten hours after leaving New- 
York, we arrived at Albany situate on the 
right and west bank of the river. There we 
learned that the connection with Saratoga had 
been lost for that day; and, although we 
remembered that the next day would be the 
Lord’s day, such was the heat at Albany that 
we determined to proceed next morning to 
Saratoga. There we arrived at ten o’clock 
in the morning ; 


situate on the opposite and left bank of the 


passing in sight of Troy, 


river; and having, on the passage, and for 
the first time, a sight of the great Erie canal. 
This great work, as one of our friends in 
New-York said, is necessary to the supplying 
of bread to that place, notwithstanding the 
many rail-roads tending thither. 

We remained three days at Saratoga, the 
weather being cool and fair; our time being 
pleasantly taken up in viewing the different 
springs and the pleasant grounds, as well as 
in receiving the hospitality of a citizen of: that 


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place, and of his family. Here we received 
letters from home. If time had not been 
wanting, we would have remained two weeks 
at Saratoga, instead of the aforesaid sojourn 
of three days. 

On the first day of July, we leave Sara- 
toga, entering upon our journey towards Nia- 
gara. Shortly after entering the cars, we 
made the acquaintance of a gentleman, who, 
with his family, was traveling on our route 
almost as far as Rochester. He was found to 
be a captain in the Forty-second regiment of 
the United States army, stationed at Platts- 
burg. He was of great service to us, in 
pointing out places on the route, as well as 
in other ways. 

At Schenectady, it was necessary for us to 
await the arrival of the express train of ears. 
The day proved to be commencement day of 
Union College ; and the streets were crowded 
with prettily dressed ladies and girls, besides 
a great throng of men and boys. Besides 
this, the show of a hand-organ and monkey, 
and the exhibition of Dan Rice’s circus-actors 


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and beasts, could be seen in the streets. The 
town was very lively; but, not taking into 
the account the sight of a great many pretty 
women, we, there most enjoyed a taste of 
cherries, the first we saw on our tour. 

At two in the afternoon, we took the great 
Central rail-road, on our way to Niagara. In 
the route, we rarely lost sight of the beautiful 
valley of the Mohawk, almost to its termina- 
tion. Handsome villages, large cities, highly 
ornamented grounds, fat cattle, flocks of sheep, 
fields waving with grain, and the most beau- 
tiful prospects, were “meeting the eye, until 
night. Over and over again, we crossed the 
Erie canal burdened with riches. Of the great 
importance of this work, in bringing wealth to 
Clinton’s State, or of this imperishable monu- 
ment reared by himself, as it turned out, to 
his own memory, it is difficult to form a pro- 
per estimate: — 

Monumentum si queeris, circumspice ! 

A little after midnight, we reached Suspen- 
sion-Bridge, whence, in a hackney-coach, we 
are carried to the International Hotel, said to 

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be one of the best in America. From our 
beds we could distinctly hear the roar of the 
cataract and the murmuring of the rapids. 
To me these sounds did not induce sleep: 
what the morning would disclose I anxiously 
awaited. In the morning, breakfast being over, 
our first business was to see the cataract by 
far excelling all others. Crossing Suspension- 
Bridge, we are at once in the Dominion of 
Canada, and beholding the precipitous falls. 
The roads are dusty, and the weather very 
hot: still, we are not disappointed. To one 
who has not seen Niagara, no description of 
it will suffice. J was satisfied with a general 
view of the falls and their surroundings ; and 
was not disposed to linger on the smaller ad- 
juncts, such as the remnant of Table-Rock, 
(,oat-Island, or other matters: nor did I choose 
to run the hazard of going underneath the, 
descending flood; in which thing, being judge 
in my own case, ‘‘distance” would ever ‘lend 
enchantment to the view.” My enjoyment of 
Niagara was lessened by the fact that the 
sun seemed to me to rise in the west, and set 


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in the east! The money expended in visiting 
the museum, on the Canada side, was fully 
repaid by the sight of two full-grown bisons, 
in a stable adjoining ; which animals, although 
confined, plainly showed their wild nature. 
Returning from the Canada side, and having 
dined and supped, we took the cars, at ten 
minutes past seven, on our return to New- 
York through Albany. 

Reaching Albany at six the next morning, 
we found the weather still quite warm. As 
on the upward trip, we lodge at the Delavan 
House. After breakfast, my son accompany- 
ing me, I called on the Reverend Doctor 
William B. Sprague, whom I had before known 
by correspondence. By him I was kindly 
received. Besides the great estimation in 
which he is held, as a preacher of the gospel, 
orator, and author, he is very extensively 
known as an assiduous and successful collector 
of autographs. After dinner, on arriving at 
the depot of the Harlem rail-road, at three in 
the afternoon, it was first announced to us 
that the thermometer had reached one hun- 


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dred and ten degrees: shortly after, through 
another messenger, we heard that it had 
reached: the ninety-second degree, and was 
still rising. We supposed that the truth, as 
usual, was about the middle, and that the 
heat ranged somewhere under one hundred 
degrees. The weather was certainly hot. 

Leaving Albany, by the Harlem road above 
mentioned, it was our intention to tarry a 
little while, on our way to New-York, at the 
house of a friend to whom we had sent letters 
in advance. This purpose being frustrated by 
causes beyond our control, we proceeded on 
to New-York, where we arrived that night. 
There we found that great preparation had 
been made for celebrating the fourth of July; 
besides that the convention of the Democratic 
party, for selecting candidates for the Presi- 
dency and Vice-Presidency of the United 
States, was to be held the same day: The 
city, therefore, was full of strangers; but the 
capacity of the metropolis equaled the emerg- 
ency. 

We remained in the city until the eighth 


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of the month, enjoying ourselves as well as 
we could in the great heat. On the day of 
our departure, through the kindness of a 
friend, we were driven to Central Park, and 
as far as Jerome Park. Many other kind- 
nesses of the same sort were conferred on us 
in New-York. To the many friends we there 
met, the utmost thanks are due. The men- 
tion of their names would hardly be proper. 
Of these friends, one, to whom I carried let- 
ters, but whom I had not previously known, 
again and again insisted that I should draw 
on him for whatever money we might need. 

On account of our limited time, it was not 
fully in our power to see the most remark- 
able sights in the city. Trinity Church, as I 
suppose, is considered the most splendid of its 
public buildings; and the spire is certainly 
magnificent, especially when viewed near ; 
nevertheless, in my judgment, the interior of 
the church on Madison Park, under the pas- 
toral care of the Reverend Doctor William 
Adams, is better adapted to divine worship. 

On the eighth day of July, we embarked 


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on board the steam-ship Rapidan, - captain 
Cheesman, who has the faculty of endearing 
himself to his passengers. After another most 
favorable view of the beautiful bay of New- 
York, we passed the high-lands on the Jersey 
shore; and, at sun-set, we put to sea. For 
some time, were seen the lights through the 
windows of the houses at Long-Branch, shin- 
ing above the waves. With a sea more tran- 
quil than on the outward voyage, the trip was 
enlivened with good cheer. As before said, 
we caught two other stormy petrels; but, as 
on the former occasion, they were soon turned 
loose. ~ 

At three o’clock in the morning of the 
twelfth of July, we touched the wharf at 
Savannah; returning home in health, and 
finding the family well. Our journeying was 
short, but pleasant; sweeter the return and 
greeting. 


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TRANSLATION. 








DE 


ITINERE BREVI SEPTENTRIONALI 
NOT AL. 





Die vicesimo Junii, anno Domini M DCCC LX- 
vill., hora quinta post meridiem, filia mea natu 
maxima, filioque meo parvo, comitibus, navem 
vaporariam Sanctum Salvatorem nominatam, 
preefecto Nickersonio, Novum-Eboracum navi- 
gaturam, conscendi. Pharum-Tybeii, aura 
favente et coelo sereno, circiter crepusculum, 
preeterivimus. Peene quiescit mare, deficiente 
asperitate ampliori quam satis ad nauseam 
movendam, et quosdam e vectoribus impellen- 
dos, (me ad numerum pertinente,) tributum 
usitatum Neptuno solvere. Nobis in nave so- 
cietas jucunda fuit, cum viaticorum omnium 
copia. Post noctem benignam, expergiscimur, 
vim quasi Maronis verborum persentire : 


ce A nee yam amps we 


Occurrit tellus; ceelum undique, et undique pontus. 


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26 DE I'TTINERE BREVI 


Aurora mihi rem aliam retexit, scilicet: fili- 
am meam et alios e viatoribus nausea gravi 
eruciatos; et, in statu illo, usque ad finem 
navigationis, permanserunt nonnulli. Propter 
nihil, preter equoris tranquillitatem, cetorum 
trium quatuorve visum, et thalassidrome pela- 
gice* wiius captionem, notatione dignum  fuit 
itineris residuum. Mare transeuntibus sit sola- 
tio, si Cognoscerent aviculain supra dictam, in 
terram rarissime visam, et vuleo JJatris-Careie- 
pullum nancupatam, nausea Jaborare simul ut 
in navem vehatur: saltem, sic alunt nautici ; 
et in hac re videtur confirmationem esse, 
quoniam avis heec, simul ac ad navem feratur, 
semper Vomere incipit. HKjusdem rei exempla 
duo alia, in reditu nostro, vidimus. 

Convectorem habuimus, cognomine Morti- 
MER, gui, annis superioribus, navibus mereato- 
riis preefuerat. Animos amicorum narrationibus 
jucundis detinebat, artibusque jocosis—vectori- 
bus parvis, preecipue, gratis. Propter etymo- 
logiam nominis ejus, nonnullis e nobis. Maris- 
Mortui-Homo facete appellatus est. 

Post meridiem Junii diei vicesimi-tertii, in 


SEPTENTRIONALI NOTA. 27 


sinum Neo-Eboracensem peryenimus ; et tem-- 
pestate serena, nobis in accessu ad urbem 
prospectus puleherrimus patefactus est. Mihi 
molem-oetavam, (Anglice, pier number eight.) 
Fluvii-Septentrionalis advenienti, unum mini- 
me in metropoli de me non ignorare, constabat. 
Centurio in exercitu. Civitatum Foederatarum 
fuerat ; vulnusque honorificum, tempore oppug- 
nandi Pulasketi-Propugnaculi, acceperat. Post 
laborem non parvum pacto faciendo de sar- 
cinis nostris e nave portandis, ad Hospitium 
Jacobi-Sancti, in compito Vize-late Viaeque 
vicesime -sexta situm, vehimur. Hic, nobis 
eedium pars amoena assignatur; et, ibidem, 
post coenam, cubitum discedimus—quoad duos 
e nobis, tempore primo in urbe illa. Quan- 
tulum quietis nobis erat, non necesse habeo 
dicere. Alicui, sono tintinnabulorum ad ear- 
ros-Viarios pertinentium, vehiculorum aliorum: 
sonitu, ambulatorumque incessu, solum judican- 
ti, somnum in urbe Novo-Eboraco locum non 
habere, credere licet. Obiter, notatu dignum 
est vias-ferreas in hac urbe inter res. mirandas 
esse. Quomodo, sine illis, viarum perviarum 


28 DE ITINERE BREVI 


satias levata esset, non facile percipiendum 
est. 

Per favorem amici cui literas pertulimus, 
per Parcum-Centralem, primum; et. usque 
Pontem-Altum, super quem fluit aqua amniculi 
Crotonii qua suppeditatur urbs, eurriculo bi- 
jugo, vecti sumus: die alio, per Cemeterium- 
Silve-Viridis. Arborum agrestium in Parco 
defectus spem nostram solum destituit : alioqui, 
valde locus mirandus est. In Sepulchreto, 
nihil eque idoneum ac statua colossea, juxta 
introitum, in memoriam Dr Virrir CLintont 
statuta, me affecit; monumentum cujus peren- 
nius, attamen, est Fossa navigabilis (Canalis 
seu) Eriea, primo, in ludibrio, Fossa CLINTONII 
appellata; et de qua posthac largius dicemus. 
De ameenitate et ornamentis Cemeterw nimium 
eloqui difficile est. 

Post tres dies, partim in literis tradendis 
et amicis accipiendis et visendis, consumptos, 
ad ascendendum, luci, Fluvium-Hudsonii, nos 
accinximus. Ex amicis quos lete vidimus 
antequam ex urbe decessimus, fuerunt auctor 
illa erudita, Marta J. McInrosu, et soror. 


SEPTENTRIONALI NOTA. 29 


Prior pro scriptore notissima est; et, patric 
toti, Austro nativitatis ejus preecipue, honorem 
tribuunt opera illius literaria. 

Die vicesimo-septimo Junii, navem -vapora- 
riam C. Vibbardum, in itinere nostro faciendo— 
versus Saratogam Niagaramque—per Albani- 
am, sedem politize Crvrratis-I[mperm (Anglice, 
Empire State,) Septentrionalis—conscendimus. 
lis, qui Fluvium-Hudsonii ascendissent, pros- 
pectuum amcenorum et altorum in ripa utraque, 
descriptionem nos conari non oportet: ceteris 
omnibus minime prosit conatus ejusmodi. Ccelu 
sereno tempestateque jucunda, nobis data est 
occasio summa videndi omnia que, itineris 
celeritate quadantenus obstante, viderentur. 
Cymbee-canales et navicule alie, frugibus mer- 
ceque onerate, versus urbem Novum-Ebora- 
cum itinera otiosa faciebant. Identidem, as- 
pectu. longz carrorum seriei per orbitam 
vie -ferreee Fluvii- Hudsonii, avis celeritate, 
coactorum, stupemus ; modo, in margine mero 
amnis, et sub montibus superimpendentibus ; 
tune, subeuntium infundibulum per terram 
altam effossum, aut ex eodem emergentium. 


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30 DE ITINERE BREVI 


Itinere faciendo apud flexum amnis, juxta Zeph- 
yriun, (Anglice, West-Point,) tam subitus est 
flexus, ut fluvius finem facere videatur. Tanta 
est speciei fallacia, ut num species non esset 
.Vera queesivit filius meus; sed, statim gyrata 
nave sinistrorsum, fluvius, hie multum ecom- 
pressus, iterum quiete in alveo arctiori fluere 
visus est. In itinere, uni de genere humano 
obvenimus, Bostoniensi, qui, usque ad garruli- 
tatem loquax quum non interrogatus, nunquam 
ad rogatum direetum aptumque responderet : 
semper responsum vitans, modis sequentibus : 
UNDE [Db SCIREM?—VERE, NESCIO. 

Horas novem decemve  postquain Novo- 
Eboraco decesseramus, urbem Albaniam in dex- 
tra et occidentali fluvil ripa sitam, advenimus. 
Ibi conjunctionem, pro die illo, cum Saratoga 
amissam esse, certiores facti sumus ; et, quam- 
quam diem proximum diem Dominicum futu- 
rum esse tune nobis in mentem venit, tamen 
tantus fuit estus Albani, consilium  cepi- 
mus ut mane Saratogam progrediremur. Tilo, 
hora decima matutina, advenimus; in con- 
spectu Troje in altera sinistraque ripa posite, 


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progredientes ; et habentes, in transitu, pri- 
mum, visum Canalis Erie magne. Hoe opus 
ingens, ut dixit unus ex anicis nostris in urbe 
Novo-Eboraco, ad fruges tribuendas loco_ illi 
necessarium est, tametsi Vie-ferreee multe ad 
urbem pertinentes in rationem haberentur. 

Saratoge tres dies mansimus, tempestate 
frigidula caeloque sereno; otio nostro, tam fon- 
tibus variis locisque amoenis videndis, jucunde 
consumpto, quam hospitiis accipiendis e cive 
loci illius familiaque ejus. Hue literee ab domo 
ud nos commeant. Ni defecisset tempus, Sa- 
ratogee dies quatuordecim imansissemus, vice 
dierum trium commorationis nostra preescrip- 
tee. 

Die primo Julii, decedimus Saratoga,’ iter 
versus Niagaram ingredientes. Nobis carros 
intrantibus, viri ingenui notitiam asciscimus ; 
qui, cum familia ejus, per viam nostram prope 
usque Roffam, proficiscebatur. Eum centurio- 
nem esse in legione quadragesima - secunda 
Rerumpublicarum Foederatarum in Plattsburgo 
collocata, videtur. Nobis tam in locis per 
Vian ostendendis, quam in modis aliis diver- 
sis, maxime profuit. 


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Schenectadiz, quod ordinem celerem vehie- 
ulorum viam-ferream percurrentium exspecta- 
remus, opus est. Diem comitiorum Collegii- 
Unionis esse, apparuit; et per vias incedunt 
mulieres puelleeque multe exornate, preter 
catervam magnam virorum  puerorumque. 
Preeterea, organi-manualis et simize spectacu- 
lum, et circi-actorum bestiarumque Danielis 
Ricei exhibitio, in viis viderentur. Valde 
vigebat vicus; sed, feminarum venustarum 
frequentiz visu in rationem neutiquam habito, 
potius gustatu cerasorum, que tune primum 
in itinere vidimus, quam re alia fruimur. 

Hora secunda post meridiem, in viam ver- 
sus Niagaram, per viam-ferream magnam Cen- 
tralem, nos dedimus. In itinere, raro e con- 
spectu. vallem formosam Mohaukei, prope 
usque partem superiorem ejus, amisimus. Vici 
speciosi, urbes late, fundi exculti, pecora pin- 
guia, OVium greges, arva segete nutantia, et 
prospectus pulcherrimi, ad noctem sub aspectum 
veniebant. Canalem-Erieam, divitiis oneratam, 
iterum iterumque transivimus. Magno de mo- 
mento operis hujus, opibus ad civitatem CLIn- 


SEPTENTRIONALI NOTA. 33 


Toni ferendis, vel de monumento illo perenni 
per se in memoriam suam, ut evenit, edificato, 
judicium facere satis idoneum, difficile est. 
Monumentum si queris, circumspice ! 

~ Paulo post horam duodecimam, noctu, Pon- 
tem- Pensilem advenimus ; unde, in vehiculo 
meritorio, ad Hospitium Jnternationale vocatum, 
et, ut fertur, unum ex optimis in America, 
vehimur. A cubiculis nostris clare audiebantur 
aquee-dejectus fremitus, rapidorumque torren- 
tium murmura. Mihi somnum sonitus non 
induxerunt: quod lux matutina patefaceret, 
videre flagitabam. Mane, jentaculo _ finito, 
primo, aquarum-dejectum (Anglice, cataract,) 
longe aliis praestantiorem, videre nostrum est. 
Pontem - Pensilem transeuntes, semel in Do- 
minio Canadee sumus, ac simul aquarum lapsus 
preecipites aspicimus. Viz pulverulente sunt, 
valdeque calet tempestas; sed, his rebus non 
obstantibus, spe non falsi sumus. Alicui non 
reapse Niagaram videnti, rem inspiciendam 
proprie offerre, non est arbitrii cujusvis. Mihi 
suffecit aquarum - dejectus et -circumstantium 


aspectus generalis; et rebus inferioribus ad- 
: 


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junetis, ut Scopurt-Mensauis residuo, CApri- 
InsuL#, et ceteris, immorari mihi non placuit: 
neque me _ periculum facere aque  lapsus 
subeundi, delectabat; qua re, me judice in 
causa mea, aspectui distantia suavitatem sem- 
per preeberet. Mihi multo defuit Niagaree de- 
lectatio, quia ab occidente solem oriri, et in 
oriente occidere, videtur! Pecunia impensa 
in visendo spectaculorum loco (Anglice, Mu- 
seum,) in ripa Canadensi, plene reddita est 
in videndis adultis duobus bisontibus, (dobus 
Americanis dictis,) in stabulo adjacente ; que 
animalia, etsi coercita, naturam feram aperte 
significaverunt. Ab ripa Canadensi redeuntes, 
pransi et ccenati, carros conscendimus, mo- 
mento decimo post horam  septimam, per 
Albaniam versus Novum-Eboracum redituri. 
Albaniam advenientes, hora sexta matutina 
postridie, tempestatem adhuc calere invenimus. 
In /AXde-Delavana, ut in itinere sursum faci- 
endo, diversamur. Post jentaculum, filio com- 
ite, GuLiEtmMum B. Spraaus, theologiz docto- 
rem reverendum, quem antea_ epistolarum 
commercio noveram, visi. Ab illo benigne 


SEPTENTRIONALI NOTA. a0 


acceptus sum. Preterquam quod in eestima- 
tione magna, ut evangelii preedicator, orator 
auctorque habetur, late ut autographorum col- 
lector assiduus faustusque notus est. Post 
prandium, ad receptaculum vie-ferreee Harlemi 
advenientes, hora tertia post meridiem, thermo- 
metrum’ (instrumentum ad temperiem ostenden- 
dam) gradus centum et decem assequi, nobis 
primum nunciatum est; postea aliquanto, ad 
gradum nonagesimum et secundum assecutum 
esse, et adhuc ingravescere, per nuncium alte- 
rum audivimus. Veritatem quasi in medio, 
ut usitate, fuisse, et estum sub gradibus cen- 
tum aliquanto pervagatum esse, putabamus. 
Caluit, vere. 

Albania exeuntibus, per viam-Harlemi, quam 
supra memoravimus, nobis in animo erat, ut 
paulisper,-in via versus Novum- Eboracum, 
moraremur in domo amici cui literas premi- 
seramus. Hoc proposito causis haud penes 
nos frustrato, urbem Novum-Eboracum versus 
perreximus, illo eadem’ nocte adeuntes. Ibi, 
ut videbatur, ad diem Julii quartum celebran- 
dum acerrime preparatum est; preeterquam 


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quod conventum partis Democratice ad can- 
didatos pro Preefectura Vice - Preefecturaque 
Rerumpublicarum Fcederatarum _ seligendos, 
eodem die habitum iri, invenimus. Urbs ad- 
venis, idcireco, abundabat: rem natam, nihil- 
ominus, metropolis amplitudine squiparavit. 
Mensis diem usque ad octavum if urbe 
mansimus, nosmet oblectantes quantum in no- 
bis, sub estu, situm esset. Die profectionis, 
per favorem cujusdam ex amicis nostris, ad 
Parcum-Centralem et usque Parcum-Hiero- 
nymi, vecti sumus. Hoe favore multa alia 
non minora beneficia in nos, Novi-Eboraci, 
collata fuerunt. Amicis multis ibi obvenien- 
tibus gratis summee debentur. Nominum 


eorum divulgationem nostra in illos observan-. 


tia vetat. Ex amicis quibus, unus, cui literas 
pertuli, quem tamen antea non noveram, tes- 
seram nummariam pro pecunie tanto quantum 
nobis necessarium esset, ut ipsi describerem 
etiam atque etiam institit. Propter temporis 
brevitatem nobis subservientis, spectacula in 
urbe admiratione presertim digna, videre non. 
arbitrii nostri fuit. Aedes-Trinitatis sacra, ut 


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reor, edificiorum publicorum prestantissimum 
esse, habetur; et turris ejus fastigiata vere 
lautissima est, praecipue quum non longe con- 
specta: attamen, me judicante, partes interi- 
ores zdis sacre Parco-Madisonio adjacentis, et 
sub .cura pastorali Gurietmr Apams, theologie 
doctoris reverendi, posite, cultui divino potius 
accommodantur. 

Julii die octavo, domum redituri, navem- 
vaporartam Rapidan, navarcho CHEESMAN, cui 
facultas est suimet cari vectoribus reddendi, 
conscendimus. Post visum preclarum alium 
sinus pulchri Neo-Ehoracensis, colles in altum 
editos in litore Novee-Cesarese preterimus ; 
et, cum sole occidente, navis alto committitur. 
Aliquamdiu, lucerne per fenestras domorum 
in Lrachio-Longo, superque undas effulgentes, 
conspiciebantur. Mare, quam in itinere domo 
faciendo, tranquillius erat, et cursus maritimus 
animis dapibusque bonis leetificatus est. Ut 
supra scripsimus, thalassidromas pelagicas alias 
duas cepimus; sed, wt in casu priori, cito lib- 
erate sunt. | 

Hora tertia matutina diei Julii duodecimi, 







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molem in Savanna tetigimus; ¢ 
tentes, valentes, familizeque sane 
Brevis sed jucunda fuit peregrinatio ; 
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